This blog post is inspired by the following Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) quote: "If it makes you nervous, you're doing it right" I find there are levels of risk when it comes to creativity. An example of a tiny amount of risk is when a sitcom decides to have the same characters get up … Continue reading Nervous creator →

If I learnt one thing from Cal Newport's 'Be so good they can't ignore you' it's that leverage can greatly benefit your career. Now there are obvious forms of leveraging your career and more hidden forms. An obvious form is using your experience at Facebook to get a job at Google. Or utilising the fact … Continue reading Career leverage →

The meeting invites start arriving into inboxes. Some recipients are delighted. A three hour meeting on a super boring topic is a perfect excuse for a paid snooze. But some invitees feel awkward, they suspect this meeting will not be a good use of their time but will they be assertive enough to decline the … Continue reading Boring meeting invites →

Time pressure has to be the worst kind of stress. You can slap on your headphones, walk away or confront a human trying to pressure you but there's no managing time. It just ticks on second by second, refusing to slow down.

"We get there when we get there" A handy phrase when late and immovable traffic stands between you and your destination. Although the line is mind numbingly obvious notice how it doesn't say: "the more you worry the quicker the traffic moves" Furthermore it feels like a resignation to factors beyond our control.

I read in a book that a clever chap by the name of Clayton Christensen encourages business tycoons to find the 'Job to be done'. Meaning companies should find the purpose of their product for the customers. For example are people buying pens as gifts? Because, if so, that information could be useful for better … Continue reading Ironic MBA learning →

I theorise that nostalgia only strikes when the present is perceived to be worse than the past. Nostalgia never attacks when we're riding high and cashing in. No. Nostalgia comes for you when we're most vulnerable, when we're in a trough, lamenting easier days.

Today, I saw a book that had condensed the learnings from a two year MBA into 187 pages. The tagline on the back was: 'Learn an entire MBA course without spending thousands and waving goodbye to two years of your life' Now you might think that is a sign of the times. People want the … Continue reading 10 minute MBA →

I think deep down everyone knows we can't change the structural integrity of a hoodie and yet we keep pushing it down to make it fit in our suitcase. The jumper is already as flat as it can be. It does not hold air. But that doesn't stop us from throwing our full body weight … Continue reading Get flatter hoodie →

Rose tinted glasses are blind to past pain. Corrective lenses help to see the true measure of the past. Because let's face it no time in history was perfect.